When a reader e-mailed us with a weekend Santa Monica sighting of Tobey Maguire claiming that the actor "looks a lot less puffy than he has in the past," we were at first skeptical. However, a quick trip to Getty Images seems to confirm that Maguire looked relatively trim at a recent poker event in Vegas, a city where he'd previously been snapped looking woefully unprepared for his spandex spider-suit. Can it be? Has the slim Tobey reemerged? To celebrate Maguire's triumphant return to fighting weight, we went back through our archives for accounts of the "tubby" star's six month journey to Fattytown and back, a trek we now share with you in timeline form. Click the above image to have a look. After the jump, we present links to the posts so movingly illustrated on the timeline.

1/24/05: Tobey Maguire At Sundance...the journey begins

2/28/05: Maguire not looking good at CAA Oscar party

3/26/05: Tobey needs to "lay off the Twinkies"

4/20/05: Poker marathons are unkind to the Maguire physique, we call for (another) intervention

5/5/05: Jessica Alba intimates that Maguire is not looking his best

6/26/05: The turnaround begins! Maguire "[doesn't] seem as fat as reported"!

7/16/05: As noted above, a reader remarks on Maguire's lack of puffiness. The journey ends...for now.

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